The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute recently released its 2012 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a project designed to report how healthy each county is.
The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program is designed to help communities create solutions that make it easier for people to be healthy in their own communities, focusing on specific factors that affect health (including education and income). Ranking the health of nearly every county in the nation, the County Health Rankings illustrate what is know related to what is making people sick or healthy. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation collaborates with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute to bring this program to cities, counties and states across the nation.
The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program includes the County Health Rankings project and the County Health Roadmaps project that is designed to mobilize local communities, national partners, and leaders across all sectors to improve health. The Roadmaps project includes grants to local coalitions and partnerships among policymakers, business, education, public health, health care, and community organizations; grants to national organizations working to improve health; recognition of communities whose promising efforts have led to better health; and customized technical assistance on strategies to improve health
Media report:
Burlington Free Press: Report: Chittenden is Vermont's healthiest county (3 APR 12)
New England County Rankings:
County Health Rankings & Road Maps: Health Outcomes in Connecticut
County Health Rankings & Road Maps: Health Outcomes in Maine
County Health Rankings & Road Maps: Health Outcomes in Massachusetts
County Health Rankings & Road Maps: Health Outcomes in New Hampshire
County Health Rankings & Road Maps: Health Outcomes in Rhode Island
County Health Rankings & Road Maps: Health Outcomes in Vermont
Background information:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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